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Delaware, Peninsula Horticultural Socilety— 
Wesley Webb, Dover, Del. 
Florida—E. O. Painter, Jacksonville. 
Georgia-—J. B. Wright, Cairo. 
Jdabo State Horticultural Society—Frank IF. 
Pierce, Layette, Idaho. 
Illinois—-W. GB. Lloyd, Kinmundy. 
Indiana—C. G. Wovdbury, Latayette. 
Indiana—~W. N. Yost, Meridian. 
lowa-~Wesley Greene, Davenport. 
Kansas—Walter Wellhouse, Topeka. 
Kentucky-—W. R. Button, Bedford. 
Louisiana-—l. LI. Burnette, Baton Rouge. 
Maine—l. L. White, Bowdoinham. 
Maryland—Prof. C. P. Close, College Park. 
Massachusetts—-William DP. Rich, Boston. 
Massachusetts Fruit Growers’ Association—IF. 
Howard Brown, Marlboro, Mass. 
Michigan——Charles EB. Bassett, Fennville. 
Minnesota~-A. W. Latham, Minneapolis. 
Mississippi—H. E. Blakelee, Jackson. 
Missouri—Dr. W. L. Woward, Columbia. 
Montana-—-M. L. Dean, Missoula. 
Nebraska-——C. G. Marshall, Lincoln. 
New Hampshire—B. 8. Pickett, Durham. 
New Jersey~~LUoward G. Taylor, Riverton. 
New Mexico—J. D. Sena, Santa Fe. 
New York—E. C. Gillett, Penn Yan. 
Western New York Horticultural Society—Jobhn 
Wall, 204 Granite Building, Rochester, N. Y¥. 
North Carolina—Prof. W. N. IJlutt, West 
Raleigh. ; 
North Dakota-—-~O. O. Churchill, Agricultural 
“ollege. 
Northeastern Iowa Ilorticultural Socilety—Chas. 
I. Gardner, Osage, Iowa. ; 
Northwestern lowa ITorticultural Society—W. 
B. Chapman, Washta, Iowa. 
Northwest Fruit Growers’ Association—H. J. 
Williamson, Portland, Ore. 
Ohio—I’. FI Ballou, Newark. 
Oklahoma—J. B. Thoburn, Oklahoma City. 
Oregon—Frank W. Power, Portland. 
Oregon State Board of WHorticulture—H. M. 
Williamson, Portland, Ore. | 
Oregon State Horticultural Society-—II. C. At- 
well, Seerctary, Forest Grove, Ore. 
Ontario Fruit Growers’ Association——P. W. 
Hodgetts, Toronto, Ont. 
Pomology and Fruit Growers’ Society—Peter 
Reid, Chateonguay Basin. P. Q. 
Pennsvlvania-—-Chester J. Tysen, Floradale. 
Rhode Island—Arthur C. Miller, Providence. 
Roval Worticultural Society-—-F. J. Crittenden, 
Esq, FL L. S.. Vincent Square, Westminster, 
S. W. England. . 
South Dakota—Prof. N. IE Dansen, Brookings. 
Tonnessee-——Prof. Charles A. Keffer, Knoxville. 
Texas—Prof. E. J. Kyle, College Station. 
Utah-—J. Edward Taylor, Salt Lake City. 
Vormont—M. B. Cummings, Burlingten. 
Virgcinia—-Walter Whatelv, Crozet. 
Washingeton—-R. BE. Trumbull, Wenatchee. 
Western Tlortieuliural Soeietv-—-F. W Brodrick, 
Agricultural College, Winniner, Man 
West Vireinia—A. L. Dacy. Morgantown. 
Wisconsin—IF. Cranefleld, Madison. 
Wvyoming-—Avon Nelson, Laramie. 
See Vegetable. 
HUCKLEBERRY. See Blueberry. 
Hupson’s Bay Company. See History 
of Orcharding in Old Oregon. 
Hummus. See Cover Crop, Apple Or- 
chard. 
HorTBenps. 
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE 
Idaho 
The altitude of Idaho varies from 738 
feet at Lewiston, to 12,078 feet at Hynd- 
man Peak, and its mean elevation is 
about 4,500 feet. 
The Snake river, which rises in the 
Yellowstone National Park, is, with its 
tributaries, the principal drainage sys- 
tem of the state. A small portion drains 
into Great Salt lake in Utah, and a 
larger portion into the Pend d’Oreille, 
Kootenai and Spokane rivers in ithe 
north, which empty into the Columbia. 
The Snake river is also a tributary of the 
Columbia. 
In the northern part of the state crops 
are grown successfully without irriga- 
tion and the hardier varieties of ap- 
ples and small fruits succeed well. Gen- 
erally the apple orchards of this region 
are planted on lands where there is con- 
siderable humus, and the water percolates 
through the soil from the lands of high- 
er elevation and furnish a system of sub- 
irrigation so that surface irrigation is 
unnecessary. In the southern part the 
conditions are arid or semi-arid, the 
rainfall varying from 9 to 17 inches, but 
there are irrigating projects that bring 
the Snake river into prominence ag the 
source from which a large agricultural 
and horticultural region can be watered. 
Perhaps the oldest fruit-growing districts 
are the Boise, Payette and Weiser val- 
leys. The soil is mostly a volcanic ash, 
Sometimes of immense depth, and when 
well watered may be made very produc- 
tive. 
The largest crops grown in Idaho are 
hay, wheat and potatoes. Next in im- 
portance comes stock raising. The fruit 
industry is not as large as in some of 
the sister states west of the Rockies, but 
there are large areas where this industry 
can be made commercially profitable and 
where it is rapidly growing into impor- 
tance. 
GRANVILLE LowrrHer 
